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Amanda Bronstad is the ALM staff reporter covering class actions and mass torts nationwide. She writes the email dispatch Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass. She is based in Los Angeles.
October 27, 2021 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Joseph Satterley, of Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood in Oakland, said Johnson and Johnson "cherry-picked" a court in North Carolina, which did not pay off.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
October 18, 2021 | Delaware Business Court Insider
The plan is to compensate plaintiffs with current and future tort claims through a $2 billion trust fund, according to bankruptcy filings.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
August 24, 2021 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Four law firms preparing for a talcum powder trial next month against Johnson & Johnson filed an emergency motion and petition Tuesday to prevent the company's potential bankruptcy filing, which would halt their lawsuit and potentially that of tens of thousands of other cases. A Delaware bankruptcy judge recently heard arguments over the restructuring plan.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
July 21, 2021 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Attorneys general from several states, including New York and California, announced Wednesday a $26 billion global settlement to resolve lawsuits against the nation's three largest distributors of opiate pharmaceuticals and Johnson & Johnson. The deal, which is dependent on how many governments participate, also aims to resolves the vast majority of more than 4,000 lawsuits filed by cities and counties.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
January 22, 2021 | Delaware Business Court Insider
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Brian Martinotti of the District of New Jersey approved a leadership team of 25 plaintiffs lawyers, 18 of whom are women, to spearhead 140 lawsuits alleging Janssen's pharmaceutical drug Elmiron causes eye problems.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
February 28, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider
In an effort to reach a potential $22 billion cash global settlement of opioid lawsuits, lawyers are clashing over who should get attorney fees. Dozens of states, cities and counties have opposed a proposed 7% hold back on opioid settlements that would pay for common benefit fees and costs incurred by lead counsel in the multidistrict litigation.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
February 25, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Mallinckrodt's "settlement framework" resolves thousands of claims brought by cities and counties in the multidistrict litigation and has the support of 47 attorneys general from states and U.S. territories.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
September 30, 2019 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Numerous times, Seventh Circuit Chief Judge Diane Wood and Judge Amy Barrett, a Trump appointee, remarked that the defendant, IQVIA Holdings Inc., appeared to be overturning more than 50 years of class action precedent.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
July 24, 2019 | Delaware Business Court Insider
In a July 19 decision first reported by CNBC, U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika of the District of Delaware said Johnson & Johnson was "patently forum shopping."
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
March 7, 2019 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Many of the committee's members, including plaintiffs' attorneys Mark Lanier and Ted Meadows, brought the largest number of nearly 15,000 talcum powder lawsuits against talc supplier Imerys and Johnson & Johnson.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
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